by Walid Phares
Face Book
Raymond Ibrahim, a scholar on Islamism whose family emigrated from Egypt, is attempting to educate his readers that Islamists are an ideological movement, in a Muslim world that includes a variety of movements and trends. Many readers can’t see the difference and don’t understand the notion. The American public was denied basic facts in education between academic apologists in classrooms who claimed Islamists are just Yoga-like seekers on the one hand and writers who do not want to see the geopolitical realities of the Muslim World and insist every citizen who perceives him or herself as a Muslim – even culturally – must be an Islamist even if they do not want to be. Between those who deny the existence of the Islamist ideology and those who deny the existence of an opposition to it, Americans are driven away from the precise and accurate understanding of a major challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. Ibrahim and many of his colleagues are sandwiched between those who believe Earth is flat and those who insist the Moon is larger than the Sun, just because it looks like that.
Leave a Reply